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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face=Optima><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Optima;color:black'>I’m a bit under the pump work-wise at
the moment, but if I get a chance later in the week, I’ll go through some of my
physics of music books – I’m pretty sure that Charles Taylor gives some of the
history of the major and minor scales in one of his books on the subject.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> <st1:PersonName
w:st="on">bellhistorians@yahoogroups.com</st1:PersonName> [mailto:<st1:PersonName
w:st="on">bellhistorians@yahoogroups.com</st1:PersonName>] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Richard Smith<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Monday, 11 August 2008 6:04
PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> <st1:PersonName w:st="on">bellhistorians@yahoogroups.com</st1:PersonName><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> RE: [Bell Historians]
16th and 17th century tuning</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><st1:PersonName w:st="on"><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Richard Offen</span></font></st1:PersonName> wrote:<br>
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> > Is anyone aware of any research into how the tuning of rings<br>
> > of bells evolved during the 16th and 17th centuries?<br>
><br>
> "<a href="http://www.hibberts.co.uk/index.htm">http://www.hibberts<wbr>.co.uk/index.<wbr>htm</a>"<br>
> "<a href="http://www.kirnberger.fsnet.co.uk/">http://www.kirnberg<wbr>er.fsnet.<wbr>co.uk/</a>"<br>
<br>
Interesting though both of these are, I'm not sure either <br>
really touch on what I'm interested on. Or perhaps they do, <br>
and I haven't managed to locate the relevant parts, in which <br>
case a pointer would be appreciated.<br>
<br>
The only passage I can find that is slightly relevant to the <br>
introduction of a major scale in rings of bells is the <br>
following paragraph on <st1:PersonName w:st="on">Nigel Taylor</st1:PersonName>'s
site:<br>
<br>
| Until the 17th century, few churches had more than four <br>
| bells. These rarely formed a scale; this was of little <br>
| consequence as each bell was used for a specific purpose, <br>
| such as the curfew, sanctus, or tolling for the dead. <br>
| Little, if any attempt was made to tune additional bells <br>
| to sound in tune with existing ones. In the mid-17th century, <br>
| English change-ringing was beginning to develop, and with <br>
| it the demand for greater numbers of bells in a set. For <br>
| change-ringing to make any sense, clearly the bells must <br>
| form a recognisable scale.<br>
<br>
But this doesn't seem wholly compatible with John Eisel's <br>
essay 'Change Ringing: The History of an English Art, Vol 1' <br>
where he says:<br>
<br>
| In the middle of the sixteenth century we have the results <br>
| of the first surveys on the numbers of church bells. <br>
| [...] The weights of the bells show that the bells would <br>
| have formed a ring and this is emphasised by the returns <br>
| of the Commissioners for the Hundred of Framland in <br>
| Leicestershire. Three parishes each had 'iij bells of a <br>
| corde', Croxton Kerrial had 'iiij bells of a ryng', and <br>
| Muston had 'iiij bells of one ryng'.<br>
|<br>
| A study of the 1552 and 1553 inventories shows that most <br>
| parish churches had between three and five bells, although <br>
| some had fewer and a handful had more.<br>
<br>
I would be interested in what is known about the tuning of <br>
rings from this period. Heinrich Glarean didn't publish <br>
'Dodecachordon' until 1547, and this is usually credited as <br>
the point when the major scale (his Ionian mode) was <br>
introduced, so it would seem surprising if this was in many <br>
mid-16th century rings of bells.<br>
<br>
Richard<o:p></o:p></p>
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